THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

27 May 08 – “Cashing in on the panic
that has set in with the help of some climate alarmists, tour operators
like Quark Expeditions of Norwalk Connecticut are offering polar
expeditions catering to that “see it before it’s gone” travel worry. One
of them is a trip though the Northwest Passage on a former Soviet
Icebreaker called the Kapitan Khlebnikov, a massive 24,000 horsepower
Polar Class icebreaker capable of carrying 108 passengers in relative
luxury through the arctic wilderness.

Unfortunately, the Kapitan Khlebnikov got stuck in the ice.

One of the passengers wrote: ‘What irony. I am a passenger on one of the
most powerful icebreakers in the world, travelling through the Northwest
Passage - which is supposed to become almost ice-free in a time of
global warming, the next shipping route across the top of the world -
and here we are, stuck in the ice, engines shut down, bridge deserted.
Only time and tide can free us.’

“What irony indeed.

“On the seventh day of being trapped in the ice, winds and tide moved
the ice pack enough that they could continue.”
See entire article:
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/
Thanks to Frederick Morgan and Larry Leach for this link